1909 Print Sarawak Dayak Woman Borneo Mourning Ring Gronong Rattan Nude XGDB7 Canada Ernest Cossart

Ernest Cossart

he received his formal art education at the St

This is an original 1913 halftone print with two versions of a Munich advertising poster by German artist

This is a small original 1898 black and white print ad for the Pope Manufacturing Company of Hartford

There is some faint wrinkling in the top margin --please see image

1909 Print Sarawak Dayak Woman Borneo Mourning Ring Gronong Rattan Nude XGDB7 Canada Ernest CossartThis is an original 1909 black and white halftone print of a Sarawak Dayak woman in Borneo. She is wearing what the caption indicates is a "mourning ornament" which was actually called a gronong. Made of rattan and brass rings, the Dayak women would wear these at all times, some would have such a large amount that the gronongs would resemble a corset. The Dayak people are an indigenous culture of some infamy in Borneo. Their reputation for fierceness